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The Citizen, 2005-06-16, Page 23THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2005. PAGE 23. Entertainment Leisure Company members nominated for awards As the Blyth Festival is set to open its 31st season, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts nominated many of the Festival’s 2005 Company members for Dora Mavor Moore Awards. These prestigious professional theatre awards acknowledge outstanding artistic projects, creators and performing artists. t Randy Hughson, director of the 2005 production of Powers and Gloria, performed in Take Me Out at CanStage (nominated in the Outstanding Production of a Play category); set and costume designer for Powers and Gloria. Joanne Dente was nominated for That Time in both the Outstanding Set Design and Outstanding Costume Design categories, and Blyth’s honorary artist and set designer for The Gingko Tree and Spirit of the Narrows in 2005 Shawn Kerwin was nominated in the Outstanding Costume Design category for St. Christopher. Blyth’s lighting designer Rebecca Picherack (Powers and Gloria) was nominated for both / Know and Feel That Fate is Harsh But I am so Loath to Accept This and Rough House for Outstanding Lighting Design. Adrian Churchill (The Gingko Tree and Powers and Gloria) performed in Roseneath Theatre’s Dib and Dob and the Journey Home which was nominated in the Theatre for Young Audiences Division for New exhibit at Nil Museum By Jodi Jerome The first floor gallery of the North Huron Museum is full of farm treasures from the sheds and barns of local farmers. Farmers like Jack Currie, John Gaunt, John Jamieson, Grant Currie, Henry Jurjens and others have allowed the museum to show off some of the local farmers’ agricultural tools from times past for a limited time. homes in the area. Whippietrees used to harness horses, and yokes for harnessing oxen are on display to demonstrate the animal power used to plant the first crops. Blacksmith tools from one of Murray Scott’s relatives demonstrate the ingenuity of the people who first settled this area as they created the tools they needed. Judith Gaunt, an owner of a local grandfather's collection of farm tools. both Outstanding Production and Outstanding Performance. Churchill commented that recognition from these nominations "signifies the quality of performance and artists that the Blyth Festival attracts." Born in Glasgow in 1888, teacher and director Dora Mavor Moore arrived in Toronto eight years later. She devoted her long life to creating theatre and theatre companies in her new home including bringing Tyrone Guthrie to Canada to found the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. A recipient of many awards and honours, including the Order of Canada (1970), she was truly one of the key founders of professional theatre in Canada and a fitting namesake for Toronto's professional theatre awards. Her contributions to Canadian professional theatre are immeasurable. / The Blyth Festival opens June 28. For your free brochure call toll free 877-862-5984 or 523-9300 (local calls) or visit the website at www.blylhfestival.com THE The exhibit, that opens this week, will only be on display until Aug. 11. After that date, it will all be returned to the farms and sheds from whence it came. Display cases, on loan from the Barn Dance Museum, are filled with items like cant hooks used to handle the logs cut down in the 1860s when this area was cleared of its. original forests. There are broad axes and adzes used to fell and square the logs bed and breakfast located on one of the original Currie farms in East Wawanosh, has brought in items like barn pulleys that were used to move heavy loads in the barns. Both families of the museum’s summer students - Jennifer Jurjens and Melissa Smith - participated by loaning the museum items like the 1881 origin date carved into the top of a barn belonging to the Jurjens or the blocks of babbit and the pot it On the mark Continued on page 24 Happy 88th Birthday Ralph S. Schade You're invited \ to help Ralph celebrate his 88 th Birthday at Brussels United Church 1-3 pm for \ . ice cream & cake June 25, 2005 Still Alive at 45! Happy Birthday Jim June 20 Love your family M & friends $ The use and proper manner of Moe (Maurice Hallahan) Love, Blaine, Jason, Tyler, Jeff, Kyle, Becky, Connor, Jim, Karen, Dennis, Julie, Bill, Maryanne, Irene and Mary BLYTH INNi 422 Queen St., Blyth, ON 523-9381 SATURDAY NIGHT BANDS June 18 flout Classic Rock JUNE 19 Father's Day Menu Call for details WEDNESDAY NIGHTS Kids eat free THURSDAY NIGHTS Wing Night FRIDAY NIGHTS Karaoke Brad Montgomery takes aim as his wife Maureen looks on. A chance to hone your dart skills was just one of the events planned at the Blyth Legion fun day on Saturday afternoon at the park. (Vicky Bremner photo) Happy Birthday, Snowball Love your family , » 8 5“ ffiiittiday Ruth Sauve-Schade You're invited to help celebrate her 85th Birthday June 25 at Brussels United Church 1~3 pm., for ice cream & cake J ------------------------ .................. SUNDAY NIGHTS Roast Beef Dinner Mamma Mw Craig Fajr is Arning home CRAIG FAIR IN CONCERT Sat. June 25, 2005 2 & 8 p.m. Wingham Town Hall Heritage Theatre Res. Seating $22.00 Box Office 357-4082 Ticket outlets - Gibson’s Men’s Shop, Anchor Pub Ernie King Music, Sill ick Pro Hardware (Teeswater), Susan Fair 357-2096 or 7904 www.craigfair.com